[PATCH v2] mm/page-writeback: avoid 32-bit overflow in dirty threshold shares
From: Hungyu Lin
Date: Wed Oct 21 2026 - 02:08:55 EST
The ratios used by __wb_calc_thresh() are scaled to parts per million,
but the threshold and ratio operands are unsigned long. On 32-bit
kernels, their multiplication can wrap before the result is assigned
to u64.
For example, with a threshold of 25600 pages and the default maximum
ratio of 1000000, wb_max_thresh becomes 4125 pages instead of 25600.
The shared threshold and minimum share calculations can overflow in
the same way, producing incorrect per-writeback dirty limits.
Use a u64 threshold for the three ratio multiplications and div_u64()
to retain the existing division order and rounding.
Fixes: ae82291e9ca4 ("mm: use part per 1000000 for bdi ratios")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Hungyu Lin <dennylin0707@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- Use a u64 threshold variable instead of repeated casts, as suggested by
Andrew Morton.
mm/page-writeback.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index eeab25d6ce36..1d6aab8781a5 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -883,6 +883,7 @@ static unsigned long __wb_calc_thresh(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc,
{
struct wb_domain *dom = dtc_dom(dtc);
struct bdi_writeback *wb = dtc->wb;
+ u64 threshold = thresh;
u64 wb_thresh;
u64 wb_max_thresh;
unsigned long numerator, denominator;
@@ -894,13 +895,14 @@ static unsigned long __wb_calc_thresh(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc,
fprop_fraction_percpu(&dom->completions, dtc->wb_completions,
&numerator, &denominator);
- wb_thresh = (thresh * (100 * BDI_RATIO_SCALE - bdi_min_ratio)) / (100 * BDI_RATIO_SCALE);
+ wb_thresh = div_u64(threshold * (100 * BDI_RATIO_SCALE - bdi_min_ratio),
+ 100 * BDI_RATIO_SCALE);
wb_thresh *= numerator;
wb_thresh = div64_ul(wb_thresh, denominator);
wb_min_max_ratio(wb, &wb_min_ratio, &wb_max_ratio);
- wb_thresh += (thresh * wb_min_ratio) / (100 * BDI_RATIO_SCALE);
+ wb_thresh += div_u64(threshold * wb_min_ratio, 100 * BDI_RATIO_SCALE);
/*
* It's very possible that wb_thresh is close to 0 not because the
@@ -916,7 +918,7 @@ static unsigned long __wb_calc_thresh(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc,
wb_thresh = max(wb_thresh, (thresh - dtc->dirty) / 8);
}
- wb_max_thresh = thresh * wb_max_ratio / (100 * BDI_RATIO_SCALE);
+ wb_max_thresh = div_u64(threshold * wb_max_ratio, 100 * BDI_RATIO_SCALE);
if (wb_thresh > wb_max_thresh)
wb_thresh = wb_max_thresh;
--
2.43.0